Nike pulled a sneaker featuring an early version of the U.S. flag off shelves after endorser Colin Kaepernick reached out to the company and expressed concerns about the design, The Wall Street Journal reports.
“Nike pulled a sneaker featuring an early version of the U.S. flag off shelves after endorser Colin Kaepernick reached out to the company and expressed concerns about the design, The Wall Street Journal reports.”
It's not going to be about the Betsy Ross flag itself, it's RWNJs' use as a faux-secession proxy for the Confederate battle flag 'stars & bars'. Expect faux-outrage.
Colin Kaepernick will get dragged by Individual-1, but it is not about the Betsy Ross flag itself as the symbol of slavery but its contextual use by Trumpists in neo-nazi parades of white supremacists. Pulling shoes with that flag off the market is relatively trivial, but wait for the usual trollery online. Those with entrepreneurial instincts should look into such flag appliques for the market of white reactionaries.
Like the traditionalist return to the Tsarist Russian double-headed eagle, the Betsy Ross flag (sic) has been used by RWNJs as means to bypass the problem of flying the “stars and bars” Confederate battle flag.
A float made by the “Augusta County For Trump” group depicts Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump riding a horse and carrying a Betsy Ross U.S. flag and the United States Constitution for the Buena Vista, Va., Labor Day Parade on Monday, September 5, 2016. (Photo by Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP Photo)
The passive-aggressiveness of Jim Crow has many workarounds for states-rights fetishists. The Betsy Ross flag is purpose-made for those without drawls who want to express ‘heritage’ despite the implicit racist meaning of slave-holding. Darn that coding.
As if the RWNJs could bring back pre-industrial human trafficking to the US, complete with concentration camps and sovereign citizen idiots. In the latter case, a Trumpian America becomes a Balkanized ‘states-rights’ nation based on the wardlordism of county sheriffs.
There will likely be arbitraging of scarcity as sneakers did make it to the market. Expect a pair to wind up being presented to Trump.
“Any flag maker in Philadelphia could have sewn the first American flag. - The circular arrangement of the "Betsy Ross" design was seen as early as 1777 at the surrender of General John Burgoyne at Saratoga. Eyewitness Alfred Street wrote:
The stars were disposed in a circle, symbolizing the perpetuity of the Union; the ring, like the circling serpent of the Egyptians, signifying eternity. The thirteen stripes showed with the stars the number of the United Colonies, and denoted the subordination of the States to the Union, as well as equality among themselves.” en.wikipedia.org/...
Nike pulled a sneaker featuring an early version of the U.S. flag off shelves after endorser Colin Kaepernick reached out to the company and expressed concerns about the design, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Air Max 1 USA, reportedly created to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, featured an embroidered 1770s “Betsy Ross” flag with 13 stars to represent the original colonies. The design was slated to go on sale this week, but the company reportedly asked stores to return the shoes with no explanation. Sources told the WSJ that Kaepernick reached out after seeing images of the shoes online, and said he and others thought the flag was an “offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery[.]”
Kaepernick reportedly declined to comment. A Nike spokeswoman said the company decided “not to release the Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July as it featured the old version of the American flag.” However, the Journal reported that some of the shoes made it onto the market—with some selling a pair for up to $2,500 on shoe selling site StockX.
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from the documentary “Nazis in America: A Secret History,” was taken in 1999 at Richard Butler’s Aryan Nation compound in Couer d’Alene, Idaho. Notice the Nazi flag is higher than the original American colonial (Betsy Ross) flags, some of them inverted. Butler taught that the Founders had established an Aryan nation. So, in this case, the meaning of the inverted flag can be taken to be the Aryan Nation is in distress. To non-insiders, it could mean the American republic is in distress.
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